All good that's going to make
a decision
a strap then I mean it's like that later on with my special guest house rain again
we have sports many are not sure my cup and as I guess the night I'm six rather
three seven eight zero zero two six Up come to me the upcoming events.
On Friday March the twenty first that I have for ten Sprint players in late models
in the big half mile up in Mechanicsburg bridge player as in Saturday.
The twenty eighth and twenty fifth then I have
a better than the mayor band there will be featuring
a small back in the big leagues that of the big five at Bridgeport Speedway.
Grabbing way and March twenty fifth free to the public practice session usually
less from twelve to fab somewhere around there depending on how many cars want to
come out near the end but it's free to the public come on out see all types of
course can come down
a Grammy on the high bank they would Mal they want to. Have the first three
cheering the small modifieds the sportsman modifieds and the late models down
a grand open their first at seven pm. Results down to
Georgetown the Georgetown opener which was heaven I believe thirty five degrees and
thirty mile an hour winds was played by Jimmy Hayward in the Big Bad lot of fans
Jimmy's keeping his troupe of winning seasons I believe is that forty one or forty
two consecutive seasons of winning
a future event we'd like to send our condolences to the family and friends of Matt
Matt saying there is an ADO Ed Bradley national You can see him helping out of many
local Speedway in the pit area around the tire tracks bad past the way we like to
send our condolences to Mark Nafziger and his family I feel special now Mike as I
said everyone six one hundred three seven eight zero two six. Mike There's
a reason so every new Dr would gladly was there still
a running classes that you were going through every bit as
a learning process everything everything and that's about it as and I read
your stuff every day and you're not at the track or even and I gods and then I had
spent and spent it with information and I'm going to go in and there what I can do
the best I can and. Well with that is that something that you could
not watch for so quick there but is there something that you can pick up during her
absence you can see committed say to this around should this around or is it
something that you know takes
a couple laps maybe in the heat of the future to get adjusted to. Different
you know stuff now tonight that it might counter ask me questions you know is it
tight is it listen I kind of said There you go I don't know. If that. And.
I can tell the guys and I'm hoping for
a tight little loose and we can change what they do there and. That. Well.
I don't know. It's just good to know that I do say is that. You know
you keep notes yes yes I do that's one thing that worries me Ed some of the guys
out with me there you know so you think they chop
a stallion out so I know and write down notes if you know I did this thing this
this week and then read it there if it helped at the dead and then kind of let me
down and try to find that happy medium of what I liked and what I didn't so and so
that there's that transpired to grab then from that you favor on Saturday. I know
it's you know changed at the track and if it happened and then come back to the
shop you know change it all things are scaling and. Set the shop and see if it
helps and then kind of take notes from both and write the edit and try to find that
the medium and the regular maintenance program from the late. Saturday and Sunday
morning as. Head down and see but he's been fixing what's broken if there is
anything and. Then come Monday or what we need to order or anything and then for
the rest of the. Folks fix everything and we get the parts and probably need to buy
we need to put on and then. Back to square with I get the car ready and then I
wrote it up Friday night but it was out in morning OK the dubious question is this
record washer. Because of. Your own fabric like
everyone wants to help and the pets but I never once the shit said that that's
a sad place there are about two hours bashing
a car and then when somebody actually shows up and ready to work on it and then I
like Rush and I get where there's been the toughest part of the reading curve is
that the transom segment the engine turning we're learning how to drive roost react
around here when you're. And against them I'm going to say. That the hardest thing
for me to get used to was in my first year it was just now we went down the track
and where everyone is and knowing if I can move out I just not not going to turn
around and look you know it's. Basically the hardest that was private most thing it
took me
a while to get used to just knowing where I'm not the track and knowing who's
behind me and what I can do on where I can where I can go OK for many who face me
spans I don't want familiar with. The fight racing people racing they do not use
mirrors and they did not have spotters this is not like NASCAR we have
a mirror you have
a guy you know three hundred foot near town and he lets her around it is the big
defense might be
a way to make sure nothing but look at it can you sense. That as
a as I went. Behind you and you did and you can hear you
know a once in a while you can feel the happening on
a few minutes or not that you are a bit you know little bit
a between each other and kind of pushing it
a little bit but most of it most of it's and it's just listen for listen for
uncommon and. Now Larry you know I just ask this guys I know he's close and you
kind of look at. The rapport and see where you are and know who's behind you know
that way you know you know I know that guy's fast I know he's going to be right
there where this guy might say yeah but let's just listen and listen to the feeling
of
a self-contained scene when they're actually don't. Actually. Look
at the sad and see what I can but I really don't like but that aside I saw the man
take my eyes off so I don't pay attention to
a car right in front of me I kind of pay attention now because I had that I can see
what's going on I think and you know so many things can happen so quick oh. Thank
you for the better question. I know you're.
Yes. Dr father.
Thank you. Well I just want to call.
Forward. You know. When he was
a little boy. You know.
You everywhere you go.
You. Know you know I did it. So we'll let you know.
I thank you good luck Mike. Let's invent their truck wasting it
like the. Way you base throughout the
eighty's and ninety's and and I'm always bring me even when I'm gone stop basin at
the weekend and bring me meat set up in the press box up egg it with. Has
a booth up there keep to lend it so that the. Batteries and little but you don't
remember too much but I'd be happy at the shop and there's
a lot of the pits I was really young but. Pretty much with some rows you know with
is basically and. Perhaps they ran away with you know just go and drag race and go
and damn you and go back and forth and I just I've always been around East and I
think I read what I wrote. Yeah people come on here and they say they're fans in
the grandstands and they watch I don't know say our strong bond or you know big
names so then they finally get in
a race car and I go up there now they're sitting in the infield I think after the
first he'd not see looking for holy crap there's there's Craig Bond doing I'm late
I mean what was your first experience by getting out there and get in the car and
think now what am I going to do here not where you know what they are is from Venus
Af-Am for so long you know they make it look so easy Jeff Duncan. Are you going to
do this and do this and I don't like too bad I want to bet I could do it and you
did that then you're like on then. It's not it's is it looks and it's really not
but I. Was really excited the next one by all time favorite drivers and I was
a little bit just wrong so the first time I was on the infield and I pulled on the
infield I parked right next to strong and kind of got the wound. Stroke and then
move. Up from where it is right in the track and out behind man and like I gesture
. And just as I was that wraps my face and my calendar John counted it
helping me out
a lot it's just I'm sitting there in the shop with. Like in John Connor and this
man I remember when I was younger spoken up to these guys at least when you get to
late afternoon you know now I'm hanging out with them so said Mike when the green
cry comes out I mean is that everybody just takes off and goes and you got to well
I got to keep. This thing all the same just thinking about it would be if I dropped
I gotta do this I had. This web start and I'm going to do this try to make myself
better and then once the green flag drops it's everything that you wonder remembers
is gone now it's just that and you're just in that you're just and like I just go
with the only action so they try to remember so many things and make yourself
better but it's it's just go ahead pretty much. As steady as
a car. So OK now I would bet I have raced any of your
races without the sale poundals lorgnette Yes actually. I first met racing
as
a fifteen at the end of the season and I think it was in November we decided to get
a big score and. Sportsman there on Windows and not
a fighter on so the panel so that would be bad but it was but then again rate and
race there with the windows on so there's
a big difference. So. That's why it's like I said that I pushed them not
to I wasn't too good on saying you know this did this and they difference because
it was also
a nude and I could really is just just driving the car I mean but they used to say
between grand you and Penn National you get so used to grant you small pen
nationally to brush your teeth on the back stretch it seems so rounded exactly
which part that same way so round and big and so. You know the corners are tight
and narrow and it's so quick and I first I'm going to put explorers as these wide
sweet wide sweeping corners and I grab my first one up and here race and I come
back and and my body goes. I try to make it I said it's. I
say that because I mean you know my belly is like many of the corners and you turn
it back like
a turnip. As I know yes it is so let me say Dampier and just I don't know what he
did at the end you hear it's like these long corners feel like they have you
straight away yeah yeah like I was that bad. Robot they used to but you know once I
rambled
a little bit there parts where I used to know that oh OK Could you tell the difference
in the speed sensation now Oh yeah yeah difference big difference I going to the
clinic and. Fast at blitz prime and I first found out I was on the net as
a great straightaway and on the gas and all the way on it and then real close at
a corner and now I'm going quick. It's going to burst but it's
a fast track you know I know you know I've been there I trace and I know I get
better but my first time while and it's just it's
a fast track it really is it's everything complete with an advantage but at that I
like experience. And six when I was going seven eight zero to six On that note. I
watch the changes to make to go for my I begged me to
a semi. For. A change to get that we haven't yet did you have to run
but again I think it's. What I said Well I think really the five twelve or five
eleven something like that's where grant you were on
a six forty eight so that the backstretch I was really like it was really relevant
out happening back on land but I don't have delimiter in suspense. That would let
me get as much out of bed and you know kind of just topped out at night you sat
down attic and you meant so much such a small track and
a lot more gear so you can you know just where you want to be and now what time
could you run your grave you told there is
a Bridgeport for lead to the season this is the best one I did and it's hard but
what I what ever we had but I thought about it by a couple tires and with
a competitor that always sort of leave it in. The compound I grant you don't
believe. The Pens you can go from wherever you go from every one to whatever you
feel it's you know there's
a higher compound where you're not so good in the beginning of the race and then
towards the end that tire kicks in and with
a little bit harder to tire then start down the better towards the end or it
doesn't make its way just so much if you're really does you have time for the heat
sometimes for the features and I think. Some sets I mean once an hour we're on the
same ones the betting on what tires we have and if we can afford new tires or if we
have used tires I got off other drivers that we bought from them and. That was
really good and I found out really really important you have
a tire man that doesn't or do you draw
a mannequin. You don't really have it's just me let's go up and Christina my
buddy Chris and my best buddy Travis and we were together I mean I do
a lot of the right lot of things I like to do I like to do the tires and I have to
make sure their pleasures are right i like they got my tires I. This type on the
group something. I know I'm out of tires on it is funny because wherever there is
that we have to modify the sportsman they always say the sharks are the most
important so that's why. It's the same with. The sharks that
was in the Sharks just the start to steal those teens and down
a guy interviews me to the Penske shocks and that's one thing I really feel
a difference and going from the bill stands to the Penske as it was
a big difference that big difference I think will visit David Penske Kevin and
Penske John Berman of the racetrack kind of ride kind of guy but the Penske you
know if I need stuff to pay I take him there and I thought they ready
a couple times about it and then he went central back now and kind of figure out
where we want to go and go from there and recently actually been having my shocks
rebuild strong caps now here and there fixing that I need it and you know got
a team shop lab. But there's been
a shock my first two years I tell you that
a lot of shocks I broke and we're missing a battery with the body says
a day read it was administered by call for
a strong crave you know he treats everybody was same way because everybody was same
you know but it was information on how to make things better did he seem to be
doing that for you plus is at the track I want to help you they were very very you
know you have been sharper picture way almost bad which is nice and you know your
set of shocks on you you have one bad one that's your spared your Grammy when he is
there right now where is the sharks the three with sharks of the year shocks. To
this is better than sharks I mean there's a difference that is pretty much B.S.
And this and that and in between he race and feature every change
a lot of chassis setups and but not bad but there's
a bad really as it gives you that which is that many guys and he kind of takes
a everyone and everyone's information and finds that happy medium between everyone
first when you car window epic now. Can they really give you enough information to
get you going straight I mean if it's all over the place can you call up and
actually get information just the basics. First about first I've been arranging any
kind of gave me the basic set up where to start now and then start making some
changes nothing dramatic just you know
a little bit change here little bit change there don't be afraid to make
a change because you know you're going to find out that maybe things
a bit as bad you know it make
a change and you know whether it's you know you're doing that's already the basic
set up everything and then if you decide you know what you need to do and you make
make changes. He pretty much will tell you if I could become
a pawn hey you know the car is pushing our bags that are pushing on entry Oh tell
me whether it's on the road the same thing with
a. Bump up the pressure or whatever so the robot out there really good help and
Randy is a great real great great guy and so is Dave and there was
a clear whispering sign up that's on the front that it was on the front and just
the shots on the back and how many different pounds still flew around with the ring
to close with experimenting might. Have been right about them but it's
a lot of different ones on the defensive track surface
a lot too doesn't I mean to put that as a dry slate track let's make
a change and if it's that heavy track will usually lead them to where they want to
but. What package they give us is kind of that package for what they
think said Randy would be good for
a future time so let's run what they tell us to and less there's you know we're
pushing or something can happen make
a change but for the heat with the feature set up already in
a car that best bet is that because it's the set up because most basic run
this you know OK if you have
a balance to change it then if not just leave it the same but only six What are
three seven eight zero four two six do you get on for anybody I'm not sure signal
through for your car to see if you're sort of on the competitive side for you know
it's always been. But that's what everybody just to see if you're competitive with
. The fact you know what I see someone in front of me that's been doing this for
a long time and knows what they're don't and I'll let you know I'll try to get
beyond that in fact that and try to you know run in and see see what they're doing
that way I can follow them and hopefully race the same way. But you know what I
mean even the most quick three laps like. OK. Well sometimes not so not so
much because a lot of times yeah and warm ups and or you know could be
a problem you know and then you can't really do what you want to do but most of
it's I know you can and it's hard it's what you're going to want to do for he Earth
feature time because the tracks so much different than what it's going to be like
and he he features really it's just I mean that they're one of the up and just get
a feel for it but you can't tell too much really by one month OK this is
a ultimate question I. Grant who should alternate their divisions
every week you know sports are going first the wrong week and then second the next
week and just keep rotating. I think the shit out of the times will last feature so
we get caught we don't get the best racetrack and I think the you know the big idea
kind of rotating out the sportsman's go first their first witness I second that way
or it you know they're all about a better track they don't you run no like in
a mission time can you think you could get your car together and be out there and
at the about three hundred sometimes you have sportsman Conti's and you got to get
them guys you know what that's that's the only thing it's you know but the constant
stuff it's I don't think maybe I'd be the first major test with the concious but I
think it's switching between the modified this or the modified last I mean.
Modified last and I was before then and then
a normal OS last that modified So yeah I thought about it OK We were just.
Asking the question about the backstretch bearing. And he says you really don't
notice it until you get there. I was told at that time that you know it didn't
match our you know the back structure that we're appoint you know takes out of me
how could you have found that my book and that it. Would come in the back
stretch you know but then I wrapped up in
a corner and then you know it's on the wall and back and what happened I mean I I
didn't I didn't. And they come back an hour later and I. Know now
you're great you're right some of them. Know Better not that you know it all
scrapes but I think what. They told me about the report but I thought you
wrote something that. I read. You're going
from the one to two thousand and three you had which was basically used up you know
much less now you're on to it twenty seventeen I guess it is but for me. It's going
to be
a family banking and it's there's going to be lots of changes on there you don't
even I mean you never even found about AS and I was just going to make you
basically run over again with a brand new car or do you think you have
a handle on what I think I have
a handle on it it's just I'm going to spend money going to be
a little I'm going to change my driving style because I was you know focused and my
driving style around what I could do with the old car that you said it was and I
was three it was also a chassis set up for Bridgeport So it was a car set up for
a flat track not as
a bang it's not just the chassis just everything on the card you know that
a torque on arms and just everything that was put into that car was made up for
bridge work are so I guess that my bet is that it's going to have to change
a little bit but I think I've got a handle and I think going to be
a great year OK. You. Know like the last of those like I actually read this.
Three zero or you see the plane test racing grooves to settle into one spot through
the course of the evening when my for. I was kind of just basic on the bottom line
I would go no assets pay to move up and to stay on the bottom line last year I
thought experiment you know I'd run the bottom knows that it's I'm running metal
here and there and I started run I sighed towards the M.B.A.
Last year I really started you know experiment and I was really right and I sighed
and I will look at that figure you know front of the bottom so long you can only do
so much and there's going to be times you've got to move up and you've got it
you've got to go up I was never afraid to do and what swung to the bottom and kind
of just. I was not used to Dylan but I had those then I would stand on different
lines and get
a little better now and come to find out really like I said in the title run the
top once in
a while. And I'd come back and going to have them I said yeah no I
know but. It's sad
a real old steering box and the thing my steering was like didn't know when it was
going to tyrants I was
a little nervous of getting that close to the wall and then that high up but. That
brave and this year with the new chassis everything's going to you know it's going
to be straight and steering and better controlled or better so this year than you
do on another one possible or less trimming out what Mike ten new guys are so yeah
and if. This year we might even have
a few additional drivers who might be up to say fifty something later sportsman car
so there's
a lot of sports because that going to make it much harder now to qualify because I
mean you're only going to take what twenty six twenty eight whatever it's morning
around twenty eight you might have twenty cars going down and I'm betting that
thing that the writer Beth and they would all of you know the cars out there but
not my first year I started there is most of the nights when I have concierge You
know we make it my first year and it was also and I'd always made in the future
asked year around and they can say we got ten fifteen more cars and as
a running currencies and this year I think you know I've spoken to business really
grown up and you know I mean a lot a lot a lot
a new. Kids that all the guys that you know can't really afford
a modified and just want to get into the sport. I play I'm betting out there at the
heart of this year so now if you get a good starting spot you're not
a little tentative You better the person you'll start to notice that my first year
I would always deny that but back to when I started here like one of the officials
told me I grant you know you new guys who are just starting and you know especially
the guys never been in
a race car before that. And you're here Ace you're going to start you know you
don't know what to do when you're to get run over break your stuff because you know
you're not reading anything by that stat in the back pass cars and you stand back
and past your lead if you set up right and you really don't think you can you just
can't run I would you not learn and you get scared but you know you step back there
and do what you can it work up and pass more cars or well you get
a little better and you know it's not just down the pale it was I mean it was it
was nerve wracking just now I had one guy behind me just. Not that fast yet but and
also when the green comes out you get hit the gas because the guy behind is pushing
it and you know let's send them to my first and it was kind I'd go I suppose to go
. Maybe back to. The Stand and I was like Nah man I got to
really get on it now right to get out but I but they good and well actually
official. That doesn't come in handy or it sounds so bad because
a lot of times they are so focused you're so focused on what you race and sometimes
you you might not see it when the caution comes out where you might not see six
cars ahead and yes someone spun out is right and the track where you run and and
they let you know you know a bit you know so that as
a car turn around turn one so that's me and there's some guys I wasn't on but I
wasn't you know so it was just like you know what's going on and protect you know
OK we've got one more question before one of the little picture said. Well this is
a success probably the reason for your point because that's the reason I just and
then after the one piece and. Found for the future and asked them not really
about why finishing the feature I just wanted to make. It on the future you know
just get seen last time and just go out there and I found I mean I've never won the
race but you know I'm not I'm not going to push myself to crack I'm not going to go
out there and think that strong I mean. I wish I was going to be around I wish I
was that strong but I'm taking my time you know I don't want to spend
a lot of money on OK I just jumped up and you know started everyone questionnaire
out of my way which is with me right with the sportsman. Yet I've never raced
anything it was just batching no longer always going there races and that was just
I got. My bass actually bought the car and you always want to be
a car owner I want to be
a driver so wrecked OK and. I mean. I live because I practiced that and
I didn't drive
a Bentley bench today because I don't add to. The practice. Like I want to get
a car to beg him. To travel. To stare at it.
Again because. It is pretty much like I said you know he's OK go ahead there was no
answer your first practice session was let's see what happened to read that in that
particular year so. I was never so nervous.
Forgotten. The best passing of. My body went to one official as
I told him hey you know it's it's
a special time is anybody being dead and they get out there by himself without any
cars for the first time so they said yeah sure so I went out there just me for the
first time just to get it in gear and get an idea and just around the track and
went back out
a couple more times and. Concentrated on speed you know. My dad always said my pops
always said you know. You know if that was that he meant the race you know stay
back there and just. Try to race and yeah but not something that happened they
could be
a crash in an open area so yeah so then when the opening night showed up be funny
enough confidence about then drive a car
a certain. You know it was led by the Packers I don't actually know how to get in
a car and put in
a driving thing. And first met even faster and think I just hung out on around
there and got you sort of Gonna just out of the bottom and. That weighs in the
corners kind ever my dilemma driving. Nature where you know Mr
experiences I've had no experience whatsoever no way and I mean that's not
a car but I was younger anything but like I said never drive anything but race go
karts at least place
a little bit when I was younger but has nothing completely different in race and
you know modified you know like you said those people that's in the grandstands I
think you just take it home and come back and drive it and you get into all the
stuff that goes on in there you don't even think about it and know yeah there's
been fans that got kind of the manager you going to step on the gas misstep and
they answer you know you know when I get mad but I can't you know I look at their
head and my paps always told me you know someone's come out soon and say not me and
you go faster you're not doing this right and it's a fan you've never been in
a car just you know kind of look at them and say well.
It's not. Like I said it I wish I could be deaf that strong can always thought that
I could do that I could be there in
a couple years. But OK let's go to some pictures where we have
a couple of good stories or somebody has pictures will do so. But first let's
remember that that's that's a first that's
a opening bet but that's the first I want you going with the number
a different had but ninety nine was his number and the reason I want to number it
is no reason OK I can't you know just know when you're in
a grand United just thinking about the numbers of cars I know it and you know it's
just Rule Number eight it's been
a grand design but for. Only the personality and the same thing with the cars would
be
a miracle I know it's kind of so you know. Any kind of way superstitious with the Greens
and like you said. I said only if you believe in that's what my dad like my past
only you know it's I don't really believe in all this and I would think you could
pay me I don't. Know it's the big. Green.
That was that was two thousand and three. The team. Was there yet
my first to
a pleasure those. That. Were in the for me that welled up in the car before me was
a part of your bank and you for
a year the number twenty eight looked like god they'd be Allison car it was
actually my past I ran or was good I worked with him at C.H.L.
And he was going to race
a car and he called me up and said I know you guys are sorry and I grab you and he
wants someone younger work on it so I got in there I got to go into pets and I
helped and for your work on the current you want to sell
a car and so my boss bought the car and here we are OK with your beat your first
year two thousand and fifteen your sponsors from two families staying with you for
two thousand and seventeen yet it was banter that we've had from the beginning at
least as landscape and my car owner Larry my bass my car owner and. Pretty much
like a bad to me to use and that's
a sad when anyone who's still in their pens service center some of them you know
they might not give money but nor can service that's
a storage trailer there so we really appreciate that and tell you from lapsed
landscape supply he was one of the first ones to someone we used to get our
landscape parts off he's been helping us out and still was and. That got
a lot of new sponsors now now that I got my name out there you know I shall what I
can do and you can do and so much not just coming on you know what he was good
about that have to go through the picture deal but your sponsorship OK experience.
That was. Less than. The winner ten or car down and
taken everything off of what we can use for the new car and how much of that old
car can you put on the newer car that's really. Really was that we could you know
the front axle the rear transmission and that would or. Sympathetic that but then
there's also some things where that's the new car that's an issue as much as the
which is to take
a choice of know you went to New York together go to Canada. Or fall yeah yeah they
make it in can flip it over to whatever across the border it's at the north so then
you pick up a New York yeah that I'd say aging area whatever hotel
a. Story or not we're in
a zero seven. Struck What about your pickup truck with no brakes. By
yourself and that's the. One of my career as Travis and my ex-girlfriend Christina
and ten minutes into the drive on the way down then I need to get diesel so I
pulled over at this rest up in New York to get these though so I notice there is
a restaurant and sides I want to get some food so I'm back up in the parking lot
and I backed up to
a tree that way now no one could slide the frame out of the trucks on back and back
it up so it hit the brakes as you know I'm not going fast on this roll and the
parking spot. And I got hit the brakes and the big screwed on man. And suppose that
I know there was
a New York parking or something but there's no tow trucks allowed on the premises
so. Pretty much I drove home with the break for seven hours later said it was not
a so bad time I got back and it was
a two thousand seven hundred what chassis that might at that's ten seventeen but no
OK The next picture pretty was well OK bet is in Sydney
process with stage but I swear to use. Less and what kind of engine you
put in your corner. Originally built by
a penny Packard now they had
a machine services Meyer's they were in the rebuild and that we'd go out recession
last year not to do anything this year thank God But but happy about Miers it's
really reliable know her at last and I know there's
a lot of more guys out there that one performance but who does or has done your
sheet metal work she went and sat down to our John Connor and. My counter and they
do all that really good their really great work and who's going to do the graphics
graphics ad that was actually kids creation in class in my class that they do my
best on yet great reading great work I've been passed three years my first year
last year and this year they've been doing my current They do great work reasonable
price thing and you get the rap or you get the. First car was
a rap and now it's just kind of that just sound so decads and just some kind of
little like now no lines and just stuff like that but it's not
a full wrap OK What is the actual color name
a bat chassis color race and green is that one of the old that's what it is yeah
it's
a resin green frame and I was she was back back in mind being and looking like you
get it by that color did they ask
a colleague or yeah yeah yeah bad because of that actions you know you can get out
of credit
a simple pilot. Black white whatever and then they had. Ours and then they had the
fluorescent colors bays in place they know that kind of goes with your car color.
Good because when we do this thing Shazam screws up
a speechwriter payment the guys are getting
a little candy apple cold yet it has that metallic bit. As it's what they had it
was either that was going to go with the four as in green or with candy purple but
that. Meant that I was being saddled with that next picture players
well. Mr Rush. And. It
was one of the late model drivers and I was add some of the sharpest looking cars
and the most creative collars. Didn't take. Any victory lane stuff
from Hamlin to. The bed but he would get through them within
a couple times in the ninety's I was born in ninety two so any time after that. I
don't really have I know she has pictures of him but couldn't find them but yeah
she took me over there and every time she could and daddy back in the pits at the
races and before the track and differ cynical or yes as that is. The features
Why didn't you go in late models when you started. I thought it was like the early
models but I really loved the modified just something that the modifies the way
they look just my favorite driver Defcon throw one and I don't know I kind. Of had
better even though I have
a late model next picture. Well.
Well there there was another picture there was another picture on the workout to
put. Now the state says that it was
the current victory lane. On that night as to my first year and as you can see
there is sure to try to let's move.
On the twenty seven years later. That day when he saw that.
It is crazy to. Spend so much money my place to. Run during these days is he still
going to the races and coming. Races since you know he stabbings and I guess it's
not the same the come the track if you're not race and. The color was white.
My family actually grew up next to them. John Kerry was asked his parents asked and
asked Next the way where my grandmother grandpop and my mom and aunts and uncles
they all grew up where they kept their three cars and John. John Jr and lakes and
so the problem is that I will well and Mike have never met my buddy Chris sandwich
or forged
a tell and I was good friends with him and he'd come over Help me out and he goes
and one time he comes and goes then you know you really can use and have not known
anything as I have
a good friend it's been doing it for years and it is that was that you know that
John Connor senior counter and my cousin I don't know where. It was
a Democrat and see if you know you could bring the color to that and they can look
at that episode over there and then Ever since then you know this is what twenty
twenty twenty but in the first year towards the end and ever since then became
great friends and. Most every day on the shop working on both cars and now they're
at the track with Mike so if you have
a question you can go over to John's team there and ask that we try to try to pass
the number next on where we can get it that way you know my exact problem is I can
run over there Mike and we can have that. Same thing with me and actually have my
bass around my card these landscape and he actually sponsored my so it's kind of
like
a little team thing going on not in the same class but. I. Am today if it wasn't
for the collars I mean they they do so much for me to help me out patents if I need
it and just the knowledge I know you told me in the past if they change anything at
all they tell you now that we change this the coach going to do this sets this is
where we turn for time to whatever it is a right
a step down that's what and at times you might just think in your head and then you
forget the. That's one thing that really basically really gross but that by step
with you one on one of the things I really like about that you know it's not the
dog I bring the car bear and they tell him what's going on and they just make all
these changes you know they tell me what we've got to do and we're going to do and
if we make a change before we make
a change you know look at me and say why would making this change you know if I
don't know they'll tell me again and then. Once you make this change what is going
to do for you and just is going to make if I do this is going to make
a loser tight and the kind of Grozny which I would write because I don't want
someone they know just do the work for me I want to know what about the track and I
need to do that I know what to do to make
a loose and what they do and they get tight so that's one thing I really love about
what they do is they explain to me that we're doing this and how to do it and they
go over everything with me like I said with that that I would be what I thought
about at the end of the night of the race and you just go over the top and the pits
after it's all. Been in there you know even if it's
a good night bad night you know we try to get out there's not
a nice quickest passer by usually hang out but Mike likes to get out of there
pretty quick and get home but I know
a little bit. And we plan to. Happen with both of us you know back in the shop come
Sunday Monday or during the week and talk about it and see what we need to do OK Do
you like to go read it and check and see your lap times actually Saturday night
maybe you know I go on the website. After. The set time separate to see it like
when my time is over the top speed. So I think
a. Higher drivers and I've been doing it for so long and take my time and look at
the time OK and I bend them down and then I dive down and see if I can I've got
better. Faster than I know OK this from I don't know it's I did this this week I
set it up this way this is my lap time and the next Meet same thing I did this this
is my lap time which is better and then. Always does me know we got to kind of go
this way and that way just to find where you want it that immediately so OK so
here's the. Thing well it's close enough. To
make a bet make you
a better driver now. Definitely because you know I can it's hard for me to put in
words of well how it should actually be said and I can kind of that and then my own
words and Mike and other drivers can understand the end and add me out and tell me
what I need to do and what I need to change even if it's something with the car or
my driving you know they were good both ways I don't know
a lot about what the other drivers and if you ever been in a position on
a restart the just had the choice of the inside of the outside head I haven't
actually Actually that was sad and now I had ADD that's that and I.
Said. Now the. Position for
a caution so I never got the chance to choose but it is who is here this committee
to find that out. For it OK Now with that. The Sportsman
consummately the tracks before it's you know repaired but there was
a back straight to the stands were the case may be and watch the makings of the
race track for the consolation knowing that when you play the race track that's
specific to the same kind of surface are going to be right on. The fence and even
and you know the other he races or whatever US and there. That's what's going on
what's with the track works. As a guy was
a common any now kind of try to look at the tires and see their tires or it kind of
doesn't after you know. Maybe I don't have
a compound that night or just kind of going to get the what it's going to going to
be like but for me it's kind of kind of hard to see that because I don't know as
much yet but I can take what I see and you know go talk to Mike seem like the
tracks that you know and so I do this which I do and the better John usually likes
to watch the track so if you see something you know Mike and me hey you know which
actually also slipped through this or well so. I believe the right to try to and
races and when they're down the track up OK Do you actually enjoy the Finance
Committee if the races are I will. Bet the fans because I know when I was
a kid I'd first thing I want to do when the race was over is get back in the pits
and you guys are my favorite and they know it was there some guy was you know you
tried to they might not be as sociable as
a kid you know that kind of upset and I could really want to talk this driver needs
a little busier and that kind of guy doesn't really social is or so to me that you
know really is included and the fans. The fans are one of the most important parts
of racing you know they keep it going and you have any people that came back to the
current that want to actually sponsor you for that maybe want to help you and down
the road in some pretty decent I'm going to sponsor you down the road by age or
whatever no one's really came. In the pits and sadly you know they wanted to help
me out but some guys who just started happening out you know they'd come back and.
Sponsor me and thought I mean you know let me go away and tell me I'm doing good
and that they're glad that was on us and they would want to see me do my best but I
haven't had anyone come back and tell me they want to sponsor me but in the form of
sponsors like this week say finish eighteenth you send them out newsletters or
something or you sent of the males and say we finish sixteenth this week but we had
trouble with the motor or whatever in. There. There's most of them my Facebook page
and stuff like that and
a lot of my sponsors they also I think it's both pages and I can see that and those
that it has panzers it was bad for me normally at the track so they had interaction
with the way they did it's going on. At the back even sometimes not at the track as
a lot of my around my area. Some of them are family friends from way back so I
see it as the center of those thoughts and prayers that the track I like to come
watch Marys. So Drew
a veteran pit crew they said the same morning clear vision. At the same
spot you know when I started driving that's when they started being clear. Together
and you can see this in the pits and thighs were all the weight gain is low carb
and you see some other crews looking at us like really bad like when you go to
countersue they go with you to learn what's going on with most of them not usually
they are really. Bad just like how about the track not really out there but I mean
here's
a map and I bet it goes down with the next graph and Christine actually got to
comes around and my best friend and he actually made the Fed up but when he is here
when he can go on the news all he's one of the guys him and Christina are the ones
that are always there always come to the shop not. In the back but he had come and
because they are now you said she's the crew chief when she that much experience
did not fire when they were just the. Main crew chief they had the names of
everyone and. Just about every ten.
If someone was going to say I made
a shoot I could bad raced or something. Or something. Just like anybody.
The person who takes charge and keeps the notes written down and the change is
written down the way I got the tracks I don't have time to do that and she said she
learned a lot and she knows she can tell you that it was in
a car accident I add up and so come to me in show business and say what
a good question I let's let's do this and you know what about it and she makes
a lot of the calls and I trust her because we've been learning the same thing and I
say experience I know just. As it was when sponsorships to obtain
that prayer Susan said for your number eight sponsors to contact him and it was the
reason sixteen Susan was and. Approached with two thousand and seventeen beginnings
. And then it's as in sixteen I said a mag with mantra that is that I'm
a writer saying I really really appreciate what you've done in the past and help us
out and. Pretty much just that and then I said I don't know let it maybe come
January I write are saying you know it's two thousand seven seem to get ready for
the new season and that
a new chassis I try to be more competitive just want to know if you're. Interested
in spending again this year and I said that it's own and my number and usually they
give me a call back where you know I go in the shop and send
a letter saying thank you and appreciate what you've done. Well. But much then to.
Go from there now there's
a number of the same graphics. Yes yes I. Can see the
same sense as the photographer. Was saying Yeah but I was on the inside on the
outside so that whatever gets taken in the pictures is the same that the fans are
seeing that as I do you take your car to their businesses for
a car show for. Every. Afghan knows GZ pass them and they
usually have a car show at their shop staff and in the past they had
a big day where you know they had to put
a commercial on the radio come see my conference I had. Been in the past I haven't
really had an opportunity to get the car out there for a car show
a lot of. Like Jeff Daniels and that they have a show but it's on
a Saturday so it's hard for me to get that maybe one two three or something if you
know if I was going to I think it's time they have to wear in
a day was raining so I couldn't make it back to this year I'd like to get out there
and most of their spots are they really have anything to really you know put the
car out I don't really think Rhys's landscaping is yeah it's kind of
a landscaping place and they never said. It was next to.
My certain. Areas that I got a number
a don't they're not. Going to. Number.
And. I basically agree the safety equipment out there actually safe in the race
car after that that I thought it was safe coming from out in their place and steps
to where it's not very safe and I got injured
a lot but I feel really safe and I believe I've got the roll cage and my belts and
my suit and then from there to say put that old suit I know and they did not do it
. Either but. The new car did you put
a different seat and I wonder if that's so they say hey I just read. Concede not
it's not
a thing at which I'd like to get one but I spent so much money this axes and if you
respond or any of that other safety queer to say that place I do want to get I do
want to get odds I really do hope and get that within the next month or so just
because. Well they were
a couple of videos on You know when in fact with and without one it makes
a big difference I do want to get one of them OK now with this new chassis compared
to the two thousand and three Have you had
a chance to sit in the core yet. To see the new case from the front end or.
In the new car. We had no idea we were done so I got my seat and I told the rate
that
a frame ups and real low. The steering rack was all just in the driver before and I
didn't really adjust anything so I was kind need get used to someone else's seat so
this year when I put the seat in and raised it up to where I can see and kind of
pushed it out the way I was level and I got
a new steering rack and I just did that so it's all I got was that in
a big way it was that nothing was adjusted because when you were out of the car you
are like
a total cage or the motor front or back exactly what you want to get you. There was
a big push that Jassi and talk to it with Randy Lance and this year it's set up as
a top cage at a press sportsman that grand you raise a nose dive back to
a cage motor back another back up to get
a lot more rear percentage with more weight back there so it's going to be
a big difference this year really isn't excited and they were down to three minutes
I got
a question ready and I do the case that Graeme do. Family
and friends Jenny are very doing the close to the give you
a couple of the suggestions are compliments plates along the way. We don't
get bad. You know on You Tube and stuff like that watch other videos but. You
know they'll come in and like you know you should've went to hi there you should or
you know you or you should've stayed. Over the videos and see what would be
a very sobering tapes actually about
a couple at most sports history some Last year I got
a couple. It did pretty well so I was watching the videos and I could do better OK
we're coming down to
a close first question do you have any websites or Facebook or Twitter. Family and
friends or whatever the case may be race fans find
a way to find others Johnson or sees you tonight want to call you how can I get
a hold of you can you go on Facebook and look at my coffee and pay I racing or. Two
hundred five to seven to
a five zero seven and. Well any websites in the making are.
Kind of an American the Web site
a website made up ad and got there yet I was talking to. Well
I forget but anyway less sad than trying to get a website going up but as
a body now it's just the mike operation Facebook page what about the fans want to
T. Shirt you've got someone coming up form so it was the people who run T.
Shirts and same thing you know a bit of
a money situation but I talked to. Last week or so. I should have said it's within
the next month or so the green really. Should actually.
Have to stay gravy on Saturday because they just asked Everything's to put the
letter maybe on the scales the air pressure and that's IT related then you will be
. Opening day as long as they don't you know nothing happens you don't get no rain
in the tracks ready I'll go there is the credits for the purpose of getting there
sure. It's
a new response was this year that we didn't. Actually discovered
a happy place where you can weigh in sons and Sandy Moyer long time friends of the
family name or they sponsored several projects around you and yes yes they've been
in race and longtime sponsor. Jack Daniels cheap cars there and they're going to
help us out. This way we're friends he's you know there's not
a company but he's going to sponsors someone to help us out but that's so for the
two new ones this year so. It's a plus. To see Mike down
a day Graham who we want to do seem to have
a trace of I think the statement in say the. Word I'm looking for the
word and action try to leave. So behavior away became
a cafe and like somebody or thank you and I would get a. Clue.